Thai Govt Implements Measures to Combat Illegal Burning and Improve Air Quality

[zhounan]

Anutin sponsored the legalization of marijuana.

Anutin pushed millions of citizens to the magic injection.

 

When will Anutin be sentenced?

[klauskunkel]

From this Article alone:

 

Anutin disclosed, Anutin assists, Anutin explores, Anutin convened,  Anutin’ intervenes, Anutin noted, Anutin underscored, Anutin combats, Anutin acknowledges, Anutin stressed, Anutin cites, Anutin emphasized...

 

Anutin needs a break

[Roo Island]

https://www.iqair.com/th-en/thailand

 

To put it simply, the main offending factors involving Thailand (that are not entirely unique to this country but rather something that many countries around the world and in the regions share or suffer from) are the exhaust fumes from traffic, in particular older buses and trucks that still flood the roads countrywide and permeate the atmosphere with their polluting and heavily outdated engines.

.......

On to the next offending phenomena, construction work is another culprit. Building sites use heavy machinery that runs on fossil fuels, emitting their own heavy amount of pollution and smoke, and the materials used in construction can produce a variety of different fine particulate matter with many that have toxic effects on our health, as well as industrial runoff that can find its way into the ecosystem via waterways or numerous other means.

 

 

[Roo Island]

17 minutes ago, zhounan said:

Anutin sponsored the legalization of marijuana.

Anutin pushed millions of citizens to the magic injection.

 

When will Anutin be sentenced?

Sentenced for what?

[mrbojangles]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

 engage communities to halt illegal agricultural burning.

 

They still carry on burning (sugar cane at the moment) up in our village and nobody says anything even though they hate it. My wife is constantly cleaning up "black snow" in the mornings as its floated down onto our land. You can't leave anything outside or it's ruined. This is this mornings present. 🤨

 

[ThaiFelix]

3 hours ago, Roo Island said:

An interesting read.

 

https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/tangled-problem-sugarcane-burning-thailand

 

With wealthy owners of sugar companies holding the balance of power in this industry, the Thai government, as a Thai financial sector consultant asserted, has taken "a kid gloves" approach to environmental governance since "setting back billionaire families is not exactly this government's priority."

 

Because the Thai government neither provides any financing or other mechanisms to encourage non-burning methods of disposing of agricultural waste nor does it stipulate a minimum wage for cane cutters, smallholders with fluctuating incomes and ongoing production costs are forced to pollute their own homelands. Rather than offer sustainable livelihood alternatives, such as subsidizing the use of machinery to clear excess biomass, the government tends to comply with the requests of agribusiness companies and farmer groups to relax the percentage of burnt sugarcane that they can then legally sell.

Excellent!  You understand it, the farmers understand it, why doesnt the government?

 

I know it all comes back to dollars and cents but it is a shame that subsidised cooperatives cant be organised to turn all the agricultural waste, such as sugar cane and corn waste, into mulch or compost to feed back into the land which badly needs organic matter.  Nearly everything is burned with almost nothing going back ino the soil.  The result would be much cleaner air and increased farm production.

[spidermike007]

1 hour ago, mikebell said:

The key word is 'EXPLORE'.  They've been exploring this for nearly 20years.  Maybe if the army did the job police should be doing, some improvement may take place.

There is a great misconception that the army here is actually a productive force. Right after the coup 10 years ago the army used to go into Samui regularly and engage in enforcement of policy that the local refused to handle. Such as the taxi mafia crackdowns. Two weeks later everything was forgotten. The army may put on a big show but they are do nothing organization just like the police. 

 

Nobody cares and nobody wants to stand up to Big Agra. They are the pathological killers in this scenario. 

[schultzlivgthai]

Now that the burning season is winding down! Phony BS as always 

[ZABA]

Air quality in Chiang Mai these days much better than in previous years at this time. Just a a slight haze above the horizon. Blue skies above. High season auto polution is my guess.

its quite remarkable actually imho. 

[john donson]

do nothing, get paid the same

 

don't you think in this land of corruption, big sugar has long fingers in the politics to be sure they will not be fined or lose money

[jollyhangmon]

1 hour ago, rwill said:

I had a Thai person tell me one time they had to burn leaves in Thailand because they don't decomposed here like they do in other countries.

 

... 555, yes, heard same BS in the past, genetically conditioned arsonists that lot ...

I mean there may be like 3 months up north where it can indeed get too dry for any rottin' and I for example now have to water the compost heap - but basically that's equating freezing winter months elsewhere so actually up here it all would rot just like in other countries - if they would only let it ...

 

[sambum]

4 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Anutin is utterly useless... find someone who can do the job.

 

I've been saying that for years! The man is only interested in promoting his own agenda (Cannabis Farms?) and getting his "picture in the papers"

[LALes]

1 hour ago, findlay13 said:

TIT

Doesn't matter who is Interior Secretary.  Just like it doesn't matter who is USA President.

Who is going to stand up to the Big Boys who really run things and control all industry and agriculture.

Edited February 17 by LALes

[Boycie]

Kanchanaburi this past week was terrible 😡

 

Edited February 17 by Boycie

[Boycie]

4 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

Just more BS speak.....nothing will change !

 

Less than 8 years past,

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2016/12/10/bangkok-cleans-up-its-act

 

Where did it all go wrong?

[retarius]

Time to buy air purifiers for all your room I suppose. 

[shunter]

All comes down to politicians " sugar daddies choir singing that Abba song. Money money money, it's the Rich Mans Tool."

[Mike k]

I don't think the government has the balls to do anything the other night there were 3 huge fires burning you could see the red glow in the sky 

[Mike k]

3 hours ago, ThaiFelix said:

Excellent!  You understand it, the farmers understand it, why doesnt the government?

 

I know it all comes back to dollars and cents but it is a shame that subsidised cooperatives cant be organised to turn all the agricultural waste, such as sugar cane and corn waste, into mulch or compost to feed back into the land which badly needs organic matter.  Nearly everything is burned with almost nothing going back ino the soil.  The result would be much cleaner air and increased farm production.

They are bailing the sugar cane leaves and selling it here probably as bio fuel 

[ChaiyaTH]

5 hours ago, Henryford said:

"implement measures" ha ha. Just jail the first farmer caught burning, it would stop tomorrow.

Yeah sentence them for attempt of mass murder and jail them 20 years, I think after they jailed a few of them and put it in the news, people would stop lol.

[ChaiyaTH]

35 minutes ago, retarius said:

Time to buy air purifiers for all your room I suppose. 

Would be easier if they just started producing aircon units doing the same job at once. To be honest, i think the aircons already filters half or more in the first place now.

[retarius]

1 minute ago, ChaiyaTH said:

Would be easier if they just started producing aircon units doing the same job at once. To be honest, i think the aircons already filters half or more in the first place now.

I agree. The air purifiers we bought last week have a PM 2.5 meter installed. Our air quality reads "good" whether even with the windows open, and the meters show zero particles after about an hour of running. 

[ChaiyaTH]

1 minute ago, retarius said:

I agree. The air purifiers we bought last week have a PM 2.5 meter installed. Our air quality reads "good" whether even with the windows open, and the meters show zero particles after about an hour of running. 

The thing I had would be running like crazy, but if I just run AC with the windows and doors closed a while, the air quality is actually already normal without purifier. I seen on facebook some people that can install the air purifier as a system into the wall, can also do much more capacity, like 1 system for the entire condo or house. 

If i would own a place, i would have just installed that. Solves everything and no noise.

[Sydebolle]

All bo11ocks again. We all know where the problem is and how to solve it - Anutin and his cronies are either busy with frying bigger (private) fish or simply incompetent - your call! 

[LALes]

1 hour ago, Boycie said:

Kanchanaburi this past week was terrible 😡

 

Man, that is India/China level of hideous.  It looks like you have the same meter I have.  Smart Mi for 1,200 baht.

A friend tried to get one at the Xiao Mi store at Central Pattaya.  They told him it was discontinued.

[4MyEgo]

10 hours ago, webfact said:

Governors were instructed to conduct field inspections and engage communities to halt illegal agricultural burning.

 

Same rhetoric year in, year out, yet we still see all the fields go up in smoke while they line their pockets and we breath in the smoke.

 

[vivananahuahin]

I will send him a few pictures is it so difficult to use drones taking pictures and send to the owner making these fires and let him pay a real sum, not bla bla bla.

[PETERTHEEATER]

8 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Anutin is utterly useless... find someone who can do the job.

I am so pleased he 'disclosed' this information. He could have kept it secret and left us thinking Mother Nature had stepped in and brought pure, fresh air overnight.  😋

[PETERTHEEATER]

5 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

From this Article alone:

 

Anutin disclosed, Anutin assists, Anutin explores, Anutin convened,  Anutin’ intervenes, Anutin noted, Anutin underscored, Anutin combats, Anutin acknowledges, Anutin stressed, Anutin cites, Anutin emphasized...

 

Anutin needs a break

Preferably both femurs.

[orchidfan]

Mitrphol, one of Thailand's largest sugar producers, farm thousands of hectares of cane in NE Australia, on plantations as flat and smooth as a billiard table, staffed by a handful of men,  and harvested by huge GPS guided machines.

(As shown to me proudly  by one of their senior men on his iPad.)

 

There is NO BURNING. Excess foliage and crushed pulp go into biomass fuels....which airlines, such as QANTAS are incorporating into their supplies..

 

Sugar cane used to be burned, in situ, decades ago, but not any more.

 

So Big Agra can do it when they want/need to.